1 “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
2 After he agreed with the workers to pay them a denarion, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 “Then he went out around nine in the morning and saw others standing around the marketplace doing nothing.
4 He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I’ll pay you whatever is right.’
5 And they went. “Again around noon and then at three in the afternoon, he did the same thing.
6 Around five in the afternoon he went and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why are you just standing around here doing nothing all day long?’